2025-12-19 Board Meeting

Draft minutes

Board members: Anne-Marie Scott, Catharina Maracke, Thierry Carrez, Gael Blondelle, Tracy Hinds, McCoy Smith, Ruth Suehle, Carlo Piana, Sayeed Choudhury, Josh Berkus

Guests:

Regrets: Chris Aniszczyk

Quorum:

Quorum reached at 8:05 a.m. Pacific Time US

Agenda and Notes:

Motion: Thierry moves to approve the minutes of previous board meeting

Second: Carlo seconds

Anne-Marie abstains

All others approve

Josh gives the board an update about the License Committee Business

We received the first “serious” Open Source AI license, the ModelGo AI Model Licenses. It is currently in its 3rd revision and raises good questions that are being addressed by the committee. The committee is also making progress in the analysis of the QmDeve License and the CingXero Open Source License. The committee has withdrawn the NIST Software License (Legacy) and the Irrevocable MIT License

The license committee reviewed the Orivex Syscall License and concluded that the License has multiple drafting problems ; Submitter has not responded to legal feedback about the license ; and Submitter did not supply full information for the review request

Motion: McCoy moves that the board accepts the License Committee recommendation that the

Orivex Syscall License not be approved for the OSI license list.

Second: Tracy seconds

All others approve

McCoy reported on discussions with SPDX and the board expressed the wish to collaborate with SPDX to help make the license review process and the license submission process smoother.

The board enters into Executive Session at 8:32 a.m. Pacific Time US

The board exits its Executive Session at 9:39 a.m. Pacific Time US

Ruth reported on the ED search committee. The board decided to extend an offer to a candidate for the Executive Director position pending talking to absent board members. The board unanimously thanks Ruth for the amazing job she did in driving the ED search committee with such a tight schedule.

Meeting is adjourned at 9:47 a.m. Pacific Time US.